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From: davison@menudo.uh.edu (Dan Davison)
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Subject: Re: how do I get a RC3240 to automatically reboot?
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Date: 1 Dec 90 03:11:53 GMT
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In-Reply-To: lgy@phys.washington.edu's message of 30 Nov 90 04:32:04 GMT

In article <lgy.659939524@newton> lgy@phys.washington.edu (Laurence G.
Yaffe) writes: 


       Setting the PROM monitor "bootmode" variable equal to "c" is supposed
   to do this.  (But even having done this, I've seen an M/2000 fail to
   autoboot cleanly after a power glitch.)  You should be able to set the
   bootmode variable using "/etc/hwconf -s bootmode c" in a running system
   (although I've seen this fail to do anything in a 2030), or do it with
   "setenv bootmode c" next time you have the machine down at the PROM monitor.

Thanks.  I recall doing this when I first got the machine about a year
ago but it didn't work then.  I will try it again as given above.
There was something else that broke with the "c" option, but I don't
remember what it is...I'll find out the hard way.


dan



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